Steve Wozniak told graduates they have "actual intelligence," and they loved it

[Bluescreendeath]

AI can be the future and significantly change our world and nearly every aspect of society.

Many if not most current AI can also be overhyped, and the current AI industry can also be overvalued and/or in a bubble.

The two statements both can be true and not mutually exclusive.

 

[Endymio]

.............come back and visit us when you have achieved 10% of what Wozniak has.

For some, it's distressing to have Wozniak -- a hero to the introvert programmer-engineer community -- contradicted, but many people have great achievements: Simon Bolivar, Mother Teresa, football legend Tom Brady, and the only person to win three best-actor Oscars: Daniel Day-Lewis. Should we take their views on AI as gospel?

"The Woz" hasn't done any serious work in forty years, and his comments make clear he's referring to LLMs. No one with even the slightest experience with predictive AI could be "disappointed" with it, as it reliably not only outperforms humans, but often by several orders of magnitude.

Those who have also accomplished much AND actually have worked with AI extensively -- Paul Allen and Bill Gates, Sundar Pichai, Andrew Ng, Elon Musk, etc -- are far more bullish on its prospects. As they should be.

 

[OortCloud]

In an industry dominated with roided-Tech-Bro-C**ts it's nice to see a real human being. Normal, well balanced and happy in their own skin.

 

[Endymio]

Compared to you? His Wikipedia page isn't even comprehensive.

Compared to anyone who's worked in the scientific, engineering, or technical fields in the last forty years. Wozniak effectively retired in the 1980s. Not that this particularly relevant, compared with his illimitable inexperience in the field of machine learning. You might as well ask the Dixie Chicks for their views on AI.

Anyone can get see the SotA in predictive AI by using L2 driver automation

You mean, the automation that today is operating thousands of vehicles on roads with per-mile safety records better than human drivers? That aside, your statement is asinine: vehicle autonomy is just one of ten thousand plus applications of predictive AI.

10x [improvement] is only seen in very narrow spaces.

10x? There are fields where predictive AI is performing at 100x or even 1,000 human levels, such as analysis of multidimensional data sets in areas from cosmology to gene expression and predictive pharmacology. And while you may term these "narrow", the number of areas where predictive AI at least matches human performance -- but does so far faster and cheaper -- is beyond count.

Your post echoes what a court would call corporate puffery.

It echoes reality, which certain people prefer to substitute their own security beliefs. John Henry thought he could out-hammer a steam drill, and Gary Kasparov thought he could out-play an algorithm. Both were wrong.

 

[OortCloud]

Lol! You can't be bothered to know what you're talking about I see. Commuting with L2 would improve your signal-to-noise ratio.

Just block him like the rest of us, I can't recommend it enough. Also, I can't see his comments anymore but unfortunately when he starts one of endless dumb arguments with other people I still see his inane comments in quotes from replies so you'd be doing me a favour too.

 

[Endymio]

Lol! You can't be bothered to know what you're talking about I see. Commuting with L2 would improve your signal-to-noise ratio.

I've been working with machine learning since the days of simulated annealing and genetic algorithms, back around 1985 when Wozniak stopped working professionally. But thank you for your consideration. Personally, I never thought I'd live to see better-than-human performance from ML models, but deep learning began proving me wrong about 15 years ago, in predictive AI at least.

 

[Rapob]

I know a lot of young people, and while some still have hope, very few "know" that.
In fact, it scares the s**t out of many of them.


Do you believe the answer to that question, in tech, has changed in the last 2+ decades?

Yes I do, unless they are clueless.

Embrace AI or fail.

Invest in AI, or complain about high prices.

Now choose.

 

[ZedRM]

Just block him like the rest of us, I can't recommend it enough.

I agree.

Yes I do, unless they are clueless.

Embrace AI or fail.

Invest in AI, or complain about high prices.

Now choose.

So you're saying resistance is futile?

 

[Endymio]

So you're saying resistance is futile?

You're welcome to keep resisting the Law of Gravity and the Second Law of Thermodynamics also ... you'll have as much luck as you will convincing people to not use tools that save them time and make them more productive.

 

[scavengerspc]

Yes I do, unless they are clueless.

Based on your views? If its solely based on that you are not going to win people over.

Embrace AI or fail.

Public opinion is not in its favor by far. Good luck with that.

Invest in AI, or complain about high prices.

Seriously? I spread out numerous, substantial investments 28 months ago.
I am completely willing to cash in on stupidity. And I have been.
My new year's resolution in 2024 was to invest heavily in AI.
And of course I started with Nvidia.
Jan 5th 2024 their stock was around $51 when I dumped a ton of cash in them.
Its at $216.27 as I type this.
The biggest mistake an investor can make is not spotting stupidity, and missing out on cashing in.

Now choose

I already did. I chose me, and the fools that decided to advance this for me.